Polyglot Word for Loriot Wagon? The old GWR had some weird names for its wagons. They weren’t named for fun or to entertain railway enthusiasts (?); they were named to allow telegraph messages to be transmitted in an unambiguous way. So instead if specifying a low sided wagon to carry ballast to a track relaying site, the consist could include…
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